Gerry Cooney Quotes

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

Gerry Cooney

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• In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Always
  • Old
  • Expensive

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Eye

• I'm a little old-fashioned.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Little
  • Old-fashioned

• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Honest
  • Politician

• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Game
  • Team

• As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Cool
  • Picture

• I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Hate

• I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.

  

  Craig Horner
  • Good
  • Couple
  • Horse

• I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Free
  • Walking
  • Fitness

• The left has lost the common touch.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Lost

• I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Life
  • Rest

• I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Strong

• I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

  

  John Sandford
  • River

• Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

  

  Rumi
  • Learn
  • Knows
  • Moon

• Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Important
  • Truth

• But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

  

  Corey Haim
  • Film
  • Beer

• Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

  

  Gerry Cooney
  • Relationship
  • Winning
  • Training